, 1887-08-18

/ NJ took lnH- gallops ON horseback over the
! sIIr Uinuia.- ooHn'ry, that reminded one of
/ Gun .;'> saying: "GentiaMen, you cannot get
/ high cuoil-a n reach the level of my con-
iem.'t' IL .llHi come back from England n
+ I.'- .., "a IL was slowly losing the name OF
( 'I'r'i Don ,i.ls5, th' runaway nigger." He
/ stos. al hly with the bitter prcjudices of the
! eos.-.'; =. The mission to which he had
/ ! d,.:,> iiiniseif-the emancipation of his peo-
/ p'-i.ai tine sympathy OF but an ostracised
/ Ein ri;y. He lectured continuously The
/ ot.i e OF The North Star, his weekly paper,
/ WAS beacon light of aboiitionism. The New
/ York Hettld wondered why Rochester did
not throw the nigger printing press and its
editor into Lake Ontario. Few knew what
hag,! work the editor of The North Star was
doing in those days-hardly ten years out of
boa'lnge-tettered by crude and narrow
/ eincatian, he must elucate himself, write
cTclitaily for the public and maintain his
I repi'ation as a public speaker His homo
WAS best with the best of housekeepers
, His wife, a free woman, had done
/ much to asd him in getting lis
/ freedom. They lived most respectably
! and their children were remarkably well
bred: in fact, there was an aristocratic air.
about the Douglass children that saved them
from q world of snubbing Foreigners of
di-tinction came to Rochester to see Fretler-
/ lex Douglass, for he was then more of curl
/ osity than now. The event which somewhat
overheated the blood of conservative Roehes
/ ter was when two English ladies arrived and
/ became mpmbers OF the Douglass household
] waiking openly OH the street with the listin-
/ GliSheI Huiaito, one on either arm as n rule
/ their Erz.iai. dress and peculiarities making
I them otherwise conspicuous. They We're
| ladies OF means and education. jealous Abo-
ttp l,,fg Ill,
! Frederick Douglass all they could. The
/ 20: ser of them was soon marriei To n
/ prominent Abolitionist, a white man. The
| elder, woman Of superior literary and
executive ability, hraved out her So
/ JGurn i'll the Douglass family and
Office Tor several years seemingly oblivious
! Of the comments Of tie community. Her assist
ance 70 Frederick Douglass 1T this critical
AMI l-b.TiI:.S ine OF lis life was to him =.
least iny:..u..3.e- She urged him TO rewrite
his AUTO 'iH.~rer'iy, which had been published
/ IN Lesion III $50, which he did. improving it
greatly l'y additions and anpliGcations. The
book, '1iy Bpn!age and Ny Freedom still
has n l=--e ale. Il was the basis of its
wIir'T's ac-.,lIt prosperity. He wrote It in
In" rambling EpU5, ON the hill south of the
city, -l" house in which John Brown. as his
gust. lriE'i.si the raid on HarpeI's Ferry
aud t'uiit hIS miniature forts John Brown
Wrote out the constitution of his propoSe,I U.;y
republic in the library OF that house. takf-,.-
long trGnis over the hills while formulgtiu.r
the same. The visit was something Of a bore
10 Douglass, but Douglass was hosDita-
bic, and, although not approving of
Browns scheme, had a respect for.
the old mans convictions. l. was from
that house Douglass barely escaped. after
John Browns arrest, when the ulatshaIs were
looking for him The Oil library desk bears
the MARKS today of its having been broken
open by hlS son, lii answer to 4 secret frIr.
gram. saving that cu:,s. tuition from faIl=;Ir
into LIe hands Of the offers II WIS tIer,.
ms daughter Annie die!, not long after his
hight, her Illness causeI 10y anxiety about lie,
father. The historical old house was de
stroyet by fire in 1872. The locality has
greatly changed since. Tie Douglass home
tool isolated on the woody Hill side Eot
.ong before going to Europe Douglas, wros,
20 n friend III Rochester 10 see what a r.sf-
dence in the old neighGoriooI could be br1.,,,
fora handsome house aud grounds h We:
hke-a1t he has not yet purchased Tie n.--s....
Mrs. Douglass Is from western New N-r-'.-
her Old nome being some ,liriy miles .-.-,
Rochester. She Is 4 dasccudcnE cf the /.
who satusd PittsCord.
a marked characteristic of Frederick